The competition stated that any cat found to be embedded with a microchip would be disqualified, which Appelbe said wasn’t a good deterrent, “because the cat is already dead by that point.”
“To place a killing shot on a cat is quite difficult,” he added. “So if they shot a cat and it didn’t kill it, that cat is likely to suffer for a long period of time.” The organizers said on Facebook that the school had been receiving “vile & inappropriate messages and emails” since the new prize category was unveiled on Saturday, and the decision to withdraw it was made partly over safety concerns.Craig Gillies, principal scientist at the Department of Conservation, declined to take an official position on the event but said in an email that feral cat control “should be undertaken by skilled and experienced people using the right equipment and methods.
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Feral cats mercilessly kill birds. They don’t kill them for food, they just kill them for fun. I love looking at and watching birds. I despise cats. I will always trap and dispose of feral cats.
Can I go there and join the great feral cat hunt ? Is there a season or bag limit?
Jacindas New Zealand.
Cripes, with air rifles? What, do they want to torture the poor things? If you're going to hunt them down, at least have the mercy to make it a clean killing shot. There are more humane ways to reduce the population(fix and release programs, keep them from breeding) if slower.
er - I bet nobody thought 'what could possibly go wrong' - plus - did I read that right - encouraging kids to kill things? omg - sounds like America!
Christ almighty what year are we living in?!
Evil.
Been cancelled, thank goodness. What a horrid idea.
Children? Seriously?
Children? WTF? There's nothing wrong with culling a heard if done ethically and humanely, which includes leveraging the skilled in said cull.
What. The. H3ll.
Is this a way to train children to be homicidal, killing cats when they are young and killing people when they grow up?
TFGLiedUSADied What’s wrong with people
How did ANYONE think it was a good enough idea to even mention to begin with
That's pretty sick. WTF NZ.
Sorry but who the fack had this idea? I mean really..
New Zealand has a plan to rid itself—entirely, completely, for realz—of various invasive species, by 2050. This struck me as incredibly ambitious and I wondered how they planned to achieve it
Chris Hipkins New Zealand 💁
Savages
That's pretty disgusting.